The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1887-11-19

favorable ON him. lie kindly and Hospitality
invited her to breakfast She expressed ditli-
,l-nce at accepting hospitality from an utter
stranger, aud objected that breakfast was
awaiting lier at her own apartment She,
however, presumed that enough would he
served for two, and ifmonsieur would excuse
what defects there might be, Slin would he
very glad of his company during her solitary
neal. The young man jumped with eager
ness at her propositions, and walked gayly by
her side Whatever apnreh. .nsion the young
girl may have had as to ia" risk of failure
WAS rot apparent i'll her manner, and She
succeeded in contining the talk to pleasant
gcMpraliiies until her apartment was reached.
There til" Young man received his first check
when the door was thrown open AMI disclosed
the siZablr proportions of the stern duenna.
He had. however, ,S''nr too far to turn back,
and lie allowed himself To he uShcrcd inside,
and the door to be closed upon him.
I'll" aunt and the ncre were too we'll
schoolc.l in the rules of roliteness to carry on
their conversation before the Frenchman in
anything but French, so he was able to un
,iclst;nd every word they said. My aunt,
explained the young woman TO her duenna,
"tnis poor fellow is hungry, and | told him
| thought we could find him something To
eat"
oh, certainly" answered tho kindhrarted
aunt, Il hope We need never rcfuse the de-
mlmds of the needy. Marie she called out
to the trim maid, who Immediately appeared,
take this man to the kitchen and tell the
cook to give him some bread and meat.
The unhappy Frcnchnan, i'll spite of his
protests and expostulations, was shown
through tho door into the kitchen, whcre he
W., able to escape 10y the servants stairway.
Tie young American girl has since seen OF
heard nothing from her harmless but annoy
in. pcrsecutor.- York Sun.
WRITING EEFnAc croRY Monos.
Curious Slips i'll the Co.;s of Mental
n chincry--A Writer'S Experience.
DR.. Holmes has written something about
it, as he has about everything, else that is odd
and Interesting Bul il is II subject that To-
mains forever With the man who has much
occasion to ;ti.piSt his thinking machinery
with the lLy>ici! ma himery of Writing. and
who las found o"t thai. there ar. certain
co:rs III ore So, Of machinery or the other That
always slip. The Listener, for instance.
never writes the word "i,v,' unless his mind
isspeciaiy upon til" writing of il. and each
letter is written with Il scparu," act ,t Wolf
tlon, without first writing but" All scratch
in1 it out; AMI vice versa, he seldom writes
"hut' without first writing "by' The word
"EG.ypt' is invariably refractory, and will
not be written correctly the first time. So is
the word eighth"
y gentleman of the Listeners acquaintance
las the same difficulty with "f"r' and "fr,,n''
that H.. does with "bvH unl "lui, and still
another i, generally iioorc,l hv the words
"tlEm' and that" writing ON" where the
other should hc. Thc first gentl'm always
writes "Durl' FOR ''Dutch," going back and
putting in the aft rwal,l and the second
inv .rl;,i,ly writes commonwealth or "conl-
Ei"li"",lii' i"t"rc he can get the word right.
Tho first cniI,i"t write the word ''uomrncl;t-
turc' without sioppin; to think about il.
Still another, II I'M of Lpohs, has the same
difficulty wi!h toe word Egypt" that the
LISTENER has, except tnat lie writes it
'Eyispt,' while the Listener writes it
''E up;" and IL. has the additional l"c,i-
li;.r.ty, which is worth noting, that wien Lo
reaches the letter whch occurs III his sigma
ture, he is always compelled TO stop aud
think, or clso lie will mnk. II .t!pcrilunis
stroke whirh VIII turl 1t into another letter.
This REGULAR hostile encounter with Il refruc-
tory letter in his own signature he finds Iecl,-
liurlv veXnt Gus.
The LiscNcr has not attempted to fornlll-
late theory for Til, p"ruarit,, but i, in-
tllicti To tho opinion that. III the majority of
cases it is due to ph, ,>ical hahit--n trick of
the nerves or muscles, that has become l,l;lc-
ticaly incorrgible. ln tn" case of the word
El,u -ti"l" 1t goes nsnill,-E..ypt, tho ill.,
hcrcnt difficulty Of "a word whih las three
letters i'll succession Involving Il sirniic l.low
the line is evidently To h" blamed rather than
any physical ,lici.; but in the invarinbc
writing Of "by" for but and for for
"froni, and vice versa. certainly the blame
is not to be placed upon The word. Perhaps
the type writer will cur" Us nil Of TIL" trick
Wien we finally give up writing with the
pen, and perhaps IL will! not. There a,r I,
good many evidences thar the tsp" Wi in.
marnle simply mui'll"s th" error, Of the
hand writing. Ono finds involuntary ana
grams i'll every pags of some people tyI'
writer manuscript, and ono friend of The
Listener, who write, with u machine, says
that he occasionally writes II word exactly
back wan,is-"kcnl" for black, for nsianro,
;u,i cannot imagine how in :llc world h.,
manages to do it.--5oston Transcript
"Listener."
Destructivcncss of ShcrMmn's Eummcrs